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<div class="field-item even">And prices are lowest in states that have sprinkler requirements, indicating home fire sprinklers get more cost effective the more prevalent they are</div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>QUINCY, Mass.—The cost of installing home fire sprinklers has decreased nationwide, and states that mandate home fire sprinklers have even lower installation costs, a new study by the Fire Protection Research Foundation has found.</p>
<p>“In the two states with statewide regulations, Maryland and California, significantly lower costs were found there than in the sample as a whole,” Kathleen Almand, executive director of the foundation, told Security Systems News. The foundation is an affiliate of the National Fire Protection Association, based here.</p>
<p>The cost for sprinkler systems in those two states—$1.16 per square foot—was lower because of economies of scale resulting from more people getting sprinkler systems, the study suggests.</p>
<p>Nationwide, the average cost of sprinkler installation dropped from $1.61 per square foot five years ago to $1.35 now, the study shows.</p>
<p>Those are some of the key findings of the recently released <a href="http://www.nfpa.org/sprinklercost?order_src=C244" target="_blank">“Home Fire Sprinkler Cost Assessment - 2013”</a> study. It follows up on a similar study the foundation did in 2008.</p>
<p>Almand said the study results are good news for fire safety advocates and companies that sell and install sprinklers.</p>
<p>“The fact that there are these efficiencies that come when ordinances are in place is a good thing for all of us,” she said. “It’s a good thing for fire safety, it’s a good thing for [sprinkler companies] in terms of business because obviously, more cost effective sprinkler systems make it easier for a community to adopt an ordinance, [and] that helps a business.”</p>
<p>The NFPA asked the foundation to do the study. Lorraine Carli, vice president of outreach and advocacy for the NFPA, said that through its Fire Sprinkler Initiative, the NFPA offers the findings of such studies as “tools and resources to fire sprinkler advocates all across the country so they can use this information on a local community level or on a statewide level.”</p>
<p>One common argument against home fire sprinklers—one made by many homebuilders—is that sprinklers are too costly.</p>
<p>Carli told SSN that this study refutes that. “The reality is, as you can see from the report, is that they’re a very cost effective way to save lives and property and getting more cost effective over time as home fire sprinklers become more prevalent.”</p>
<p>Almand said 2013 was a good time to do the study because in the five years since the last one, more sprinkler ordinances and regulations have been put in place, both locally and also statewide in California and Maryland. “We knew this study would give us some more information on what the impact of having an ordinance or a regulation in place would have on cost,” she said.</p>
<p>The study found that nationwide, the average, median, minimum and maximum costs of sprinkler installation all went down, she said.</p>
<p>The 2013 study was more comprehensive than the earlier one, examining 51 homes in 17 communities throughout the nation. The 2008 study examined 30 homes in 10 communities.</p>
<p>Almand said another key finding of the 2013 study was that plastic CPVC pipe “continues to be the material of choice.”</p>
<p>She noted that with the study, as happens with all foundation projects, an independent advisory panel did a “very thorough, critical, independent review of the data.”</p>
<p>The panel included representatives from the National Association of Home Builders; the U.S. Fire Administration; the International Code Council; the National Institutes of Standards and Technology; and the East Bay Municipal Utility District, in Oakland, Calif.; and also the California State Fire Marshal, she said.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Home sprinkler installation costs drop nationwide" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:31:59 +0000Leah Hoenen16909 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/home-sprinkler-installation-costs-drop-nationwide#commentsNFPA show: electric car safety, expo on ADA accessibility and additional educational sessionshttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/nfpa-show-electric-car-safety-expo-ada-accessibility-and-additional-educational-sessions
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>QUINCY, Mass.—The 2013 National Fire Protection Association Conference &amp; Expo will be held in Chicago in June, and highlights of the show include additional education sessions and an electric vehicle safety showcase that will address safety considerations regarding the growing number of charging stations installed in homes, businesses and public spaces.</p>
<p>The show also will include a new Accessibility Expo featuring fire and life safety products designed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Accessibility Expo will co-locate with the show’s regular expo, which will feature more than 300 exhibitors.</p>
<p>The location of the annual show—considered the nation’s premier event in fire and life safety and which typically draws a crowd of about 5,000—is held in one of three cities every year: Las Vegas, Boston or Chicago. The event was last in Chicago in 2009, according to Lorraine Carli, VP of communications for the NFPA, based here.</p>
<p>“It’s a good central location,” she told Security Systems News. “It’s easy to get to.” Many attendees also are able to drive there from Illinois and surrounding states, she said.</p>
<p>The city is also rich in fire history, Carli noted. For example, the city was extensively damaged by fire in 1871, but rebuilding helped make Chicago one of the nation’s most important cities.</p>
<p>This year’s show, which is set to run June 10-13 at the McCormick Place Convention Center, will feature more than 150 educational sessions, compared to the more than 130 offered at last year’s show in Las Vegas. “We wanted to give people more flexibility and more choices,” Carli said about the additional sessions.</p>
<p>She said some sessions that would be of particular interest to fire installers and dealers include one titled “Interfacing Elevator Controls with Fire Alarm and Sprinkler Systems.”</p>
<p>With elevator technologies rapidly evolving, the session will address specific code requirements related to fire emergency operation in different types of elevators.</p>
<p>Another session, “Let’s Make This Year the Year to Do Something About the Response to Unwanted Alarm System Initiated Incidents — Collaborate to Solve Some Issues,” will look at how a public–private partnership to reduce unwanted alarms can support both the industry’s and fire department’s needs.</p>
<p>New changes in the NFPA’s 2013 National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code also will be addressed in educational sessions. One such session, titled “Fire Alarm System Documentation Requirements—Understanding the New Chapter 7,” details the requirements of that new chapter that was added to NFPA 72. The session also will explain the different types of documentation required and give examples of actual documentation.</p>
<p>The keynote speaker will be Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and author of the best-selling “Team of Rivals,” a book about Abraham Lincoln, who will speak about leadership and teamwork. She also will speak about her experience with the film “Lincoln,” for which Daniel Day-Lewis won a Best Actor Oscar this year for his portrayal of that president.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="NFPA show: electric car safety, expo on ADA accessibility and additional educational sessions" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:32:13 +0000Leif Kothe16213 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/nfpa-show-electric-car-safety-expo-ada-accessibility-and-additional-educational-sessions#comments Want to be in the know? Come to the NFPA showhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/want-be-know-come-nfpa-show
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>QUINCY, Mass.—The 2013 edition of NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, will come out this fall. And one of the best ways to learn about content changes in the code is at the 2012 National Fire Protection Association Conference &amp; Expo this June in Las Vegas, according to Lorraine Carli, VP of communications for the NFPA, based here.</p>
<p>That’s because the annual show, which runs this year from June 11-14, will have three separate panel presentations on significant content changes approved by the nine technical committees of NFPA 72.</p>
<p>“The people who are on those panels are experts and have been involved in the code process itself, so it’s a great opportunity to get an up-close and personal discussion of what the new edition is going to look like,” Carli told <em>Security Systems News</em>.</p>
<p>The first panel will cover documentation, new in the 2013 code, and fundamentals, inspection, testing and maintenance, supervising station alarm systems, and public emergency alarm reporting systems, according to the NFPA.</p>
<p>The second panel will cover circuits and pathways, emergency control functions and interfaces, protected premises fire alarm systems, and single- and multiple-station alarms and household fire alarm systems, the NFPA said. And the third panel will focus on initiating devices, notification appliances, and emergency communications systems.</p>
<p>There also will be a post-conference seminar on NFPA 72, Carli said. Post-conference sessions were added for the first time last year and proved so popular they’ve been brought back this year, she said. The show also offers pre-conference seminars, as it has done for several years now.</p>
<p>“We find if people make the trip they really want to get as much out of it as they can, so we’re offering them as many options as possible,” Carli said.</p>
<p>Among other highlights of the show—for which attendance is usually about 5,000 and which has more than 300 exhibitors and more than 130 educational sessions this year—are sessions on ECS or mass notification.</p>
<p>“Mass notification continues to a very important and hot topic so there are several sessions on it,” Carli said.</p>
<p>For example, she said, there’s a session on the voice intelligibility requirements of the current 2010 edition of NFPA 72.</p>
<p>Carli said, “There’s a lot on sprinklers as well.” That’s because the 2013 edition of NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems, also will be released this November.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content=" Want to be in the know? Come to the NFPA show" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:47:39 +0000Tess Nacelewicz15279 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/want-be-know-come-nfpa-show#commentsNew NFPA conference now in second yearhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/new-nfpa-conference-now-second-year
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Those words describe the National Fire Protection Association’s second annual Fire &amp; Life Safety Conference, to be held Dec. 12-14 in Orlando, Fla., according to Lorraine Carli, NFPA VP of communications.</p>
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“We actually started this last year and it was very successful so we’ve brought it back this year,” she told <em>Security Systems News</em>. “And really it’s a very different conference from our annual meeting.”</p>
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NFPA, based here, also holds an annual NFPA Conference &amp; Expo, which this year was in Boston and will be in Las Vegas next June. That event typically draws about 5,000 attendees each year.</p>
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But space at the newer Fire &amp; Life Safety Conference is limited to just a few hundred people, Carli said, “so it’s a much more personal interaction with the experts.”</p>
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Also, she said, while the annual meeting has numerous tracks, this conference’s more than 60 educational sessions will focus on four tracks: building and life safety; detection &amp; alarm; suppression; and codes &amp; standards.</p>
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In addition, Carli said, “we have featured presentations every day. The speakers are either all NFPA staff experts or people who sit on NFPA technical committees, so there are really very hands-on, nitty-gritty discussions.”</p>
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The conference also offers continuing education credits (CEUs), she said, “so it’s a great opportunity to get those CEUs you need [before the end of the year.]</p>
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The fire detection and alarm track would be of particular interest to fire dealers/installers, Carli said.</p>
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“There are 10 sessions over the course of three days just on detection and alarm issues,” she said.</p>
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She said many of those sessions are being presented by Dick Roux, NFPA senior electrical specialist and an expert on NFPA 72, the national fire alarm and signaling code.</p>
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She said that among NFPA 72 sessions that Roux is leading are an overview of emergency communications systems; a session on the elements of an effective inspection, testing and maintenance program; and performance requirements for circuits and pathways.</p>
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Among featured presentations is a Sept. 11 retrospective, which will look at the impact 9/11 had on building codes, Carli said.</p>
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The conference also will feature post-conference seminars, a new concept the NFPA introduced this June to its annual meeting in Boston.</p>
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While the conference sessions give an overview of many topics, the one-day to three-day seminars provide an “intensive learning experience” on a particular topic, Carli said. “If they can do that in addition to going to the conference … it’s a good use of their time.”</p>
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Attendees include fire installers, engineers, architects, designers, and fire service personnel, Carli said.</p>
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Tara Fraser, a fire services advisor with the Canadian province of British Columbia, attended the conference last year and said she’s hoping to go again this year.</p>
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“I thought it was an excellent conference,” Fraser told SSN. “The speakers that they had were absolutely topnotch and it was very well organized.” </p>
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Although she experienced the conference as an AHJ, Fraser believes fire installers can benefit from the networking opportunities and the educational sessions, which she said she found useful because they delved into the intent behind the codes. “I think it sticks better when you find out why things are the way they are,” she said.</p>
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